I apologize for over generalizing. While it's not running through a reservation it is running through sacred sites and burial grounds.

Equally as important "If the pipeline ever leaked or broke, it could spill into the Missouri River upstream of the tribe’s major population center.
The Missouri River is also the tribe’s only source of water." Source

For me that's a major contention given the ACE found the same threat of a leak as grounds for NOT building north of Bismarck.

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